TAPIO WIRKKALA (FINNISH 1915 – 1985) FOR ROSENTHAL: A Rosenthal Studio line 'Composition Gold' porcelain dinner service by Tapio Wirkkala, circa 1970, in a rare tooled gilt, bark textured finish, comprising four large oval serving platters, 44cm and two smaller oval serving platters, 39cm, two rectangular dishes, 35cm, and two eliptical dishes 24.5cm, a butter dish, a circular twin handled tureen, and a circular bowl, both on a circular dish, 32cm, six small bowls, 13cm, two water jugs, a sauce boat, a sugar bowl, six egg cups, ten twin handled consommé bowls, with sixteen saucers, thirteen tea cups, with fourteen saucers, eighteen coffee cups, with seventeen saucers, fifteen 25cm dinner plates, sixteen 23cm soup bowls, and thirteen 20cm side plates. (163)